Awesome Concept Cars At NAIAS

Where do you find the hottest cars? – Where else but motor shows!

And with the opening of this year’s North American International Auto Show, lots of hot cars will be showcased to aficionados delight. And do you think something will be hotter than concept cars? I don’t think so.

At the NAIAS, a number of auto journalists were invited. There, they examined vehicles that won’t be available in the market for quite a time. They are called concept cars - those are the consequences of designers’ wildest imagination.

Beside the fact that concept cars are much-awaited, automakers see to it that they showcase cutting-edge products to lure more shoppers. The future is hard to predict so rich imagination and availability of good materials are necessary to create a compelling concept car.

"Here we can identify consumer interest, what they think, what we'll be doing in the future, what will work and what won't work," said Chrysler President Jim Press.

Chrysler's EcoVoyager, a hydrogen fuel-cell concept car, boasts a futuristic interior that may never hit the showroom floor. But while the vehicles themselves rarely go into production, some ideas in their designs will appear in cars you can buy, according to CTV.ca.

A good example would be "a lot of the crossover Sport Utility Vehicles, like our Chrysler 300," said Press. To note, the CUV is manufactured in Brampton, Ont. It also won the Car of the Year title at the auto show 3 years back.

A stunning concept was Mazda’s Taiki, which is inspired by the flow of the air design philosophy. The car boasts of dramatic lines and curves to emphasize the styling used. "It's one of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen," said a motor show attendee.

Less domineering than the Taiki in appearance was the A-Bat from Toyota. But under the hood, the the automaker’s pool of designers proved that a hybrid engine could run a rugged all-wheel drive pickup. Chevy, meanwhile, flaunted its controversial hybrid plug-in dubbed Volt. The Volt is an all-electric performance vehicle.

Nissan, on the other hand, has opted to up the ante of family minivan by wiping its boring stigma. "Minivans have been around a long time, but people don't want to drive them -- they have to drive them," said Nissan Designer Richard Pavatich. He tried to make the minivan more enjoyable by giving each seat its own individual entertainment system, and the centre seats even spin around. "We made a sport exterior for wherever you want to go," he noted.

Very true, the motor show releases steams. NAIAS might be in need of an AC condenser to make the ambiance colder by several degrees.